What is the Feldenkrais Method?

Based on research of Moshe Feldenkrais, a physicist who suffered a sports-related injury and then taught himself to walk without pain, this movement therapy is designed to reduce or eliminate chronic pain, improve flexibility and coordination, and renew inner vitality.

In Awareness Through Movement classes, one facet of the feldenkrais method, participants follow a series of slow, gentle and enjoyable movement sequences to explore and expand there range of motion. These movement sequences work on several levels, allowing people to release the tension in there everyday patterns of movement and bringing to the fore new and more useful ways of moving, thinking and feeling.

Functional Integration, another cornerstone of the Feldenkrais approach, is offered in individual sessions. Here, the practitioner guides the client's body movements directly by touch, Successful with people of all ages, the Feldenkrais method is widely acclaimed for it's effectiveness in addressing a broad range of muscular, neurological and orthopedic problems.

A Description of the Method

The Feldenkrais Method utilizes people’s capacity to learn. It works on the assumption that most people use only a minor part of their potential. Feldenkrais devised ways for people to make full use of themselves, enabling them to function more optimally and efficiently.

By doing light, effortless movements, it uses our nervous system’s capacity to sense and feel what is happening within ourselves. We become aware of how we are moving. This allows our brain to receive new information, which it sorts out, automatically sending new messages to the muscles of our body to move more efficiently. Examples: learning ways to get up from a chair without habitually tightening your low back, which tends to stay tight once you are standing, resulting in chronic aching and soreness.